M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering Universidad Simón Bolívar, 1993
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin, 1998

Research Interests

Digital filters, filter banks, signal processing, linear systems, electrical network analysis, electromagnetic theory and modeling, artificial intelligence, neural networks, genetic algorithms, parameter estimation and classification, optimization problems, inverse modeling, natural language processing, statistical machine translation, data mining, text mining, information retrieval, recommender systems, opinion mining... and any other interesting new challenge...

Current Reserach Areas

Currently working on cognitive approaches to semantic representation and their application to specific problems in the areas of machine translation, information retrieval, and dialogue management.